The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-09

again,
THE stories of restitution in Newfound-
land are repeated, this time by Very Rev.
DIR. Hawley.
IT is estimated that fifty vessels are
ashore on the Virginian coast as result of
the late storm.
BY gasoline explosion in St. Louis nine
persons lost their lives and three buildings
were destroyed.
FRENCH anarchists threaten to retaliate
on American officials if the Chicago an
arChists are executed.
A MACON (Ga.) dispatch says the reports
that Jefferson Davis is in a precarious con-
dition are not correct.
THE bill authorizing the Boston q Maine
to purchase the Eastern railroad passed the
New Hampshire senate.
THE Home Rule Union of London has
voted to continue its agitation in Ireland
despite the government.
THE Ohio republican state committee
have poled the state and figure out a ma
jorty of 10000 for Foraker.
PROFESSOR EGBERT G. SMYTH has entered
an appeal from the finding of the board of
Andover Seminary visitors.
SIXTEEN thousand miners have struck
work in the Borinage district in Brussels.
A renewal of rioting is feared.
TYPHOID fever is alarmngly prevalent in
IuulHnd, anu IL uOeS HOb SEEM 10 bt tOH-
fined to any particular locality.
THE Irish prison board has directed that
O'Brien wear prison uniform and be
treated as an ordinary prisoner
DAVID SCOTT, wel-known paper mer-
chant of New York, has disappeared, leav-
ing $50 900 of outstanding notes.
JOSEPH MILLER of Newburyport has been
awarded pension dating from 1868, and
receives $4,000 AS his first payment.
THE returns indicate that Colonel S. NJ.
Robertson, democrat, has been elected to
congress in the sixth district of Louisiana.
A BILL providing for the punishment of
bribery was passed by the New Hampshire
legislature, with penalties 60 to fit the crime"
OWING to an epidemic of typhoid fever in
Cincinnati, caused by impure water, the
children carry bottles of boiled water to
school.
ACCIDENT to a menagerie train at st.
Louis let out various wild animals that
were recaptured only after great trouble
and excitement.
CLARKE, RADCLIFFE & Co. sold at public
auction at New York 100000 worth of knit
underwear, the largest sale of the kind ever
made in this country.
THE Western Union Telegraph Company
has increased rates between st. Louis and
Chicago and between st. Louis and Toledo
four hundred per cent.
THE floods by the overflow of the Yellow
river, China, recently caused the loss of
one thousand lives and an immense amount
of damage to property.
RICHARD BERRIDGE of Ballynabinch castle,
Galway, Ireland, has left 81 100000 to adj
vance education in economic and sanitary
science in Great Britain.
AT the Fair Trades League Conference in
London resolutions were passed faVoring a
oh, in ha of a n
in the direction of protection.
IT is virtually settled that the Rev
Charles A. Berry of Wolverhampton, En-
gland, is to be called to Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, n. Y, as its pastor.
The loss of the steamer Vernon and
fifty lives is now declared to be due to the
drunkenness of the captain. This is the
statement of the sole survivor.
A SEVERE storm has ragged for the last two
days on the coast of Liguria, Italy Sew
eral houses have been unrOOfed and many
orange trees have been destroyed.
PROFESSOR CUsHMAN, who has charge of
government exploring expedition in
Southern Arizona, has unearthed whole
city there and eXhumed 1000 skeletons.
In the New Hampshire senate the ma
jOrity report on the bribery charges was
presented. The report sustans the charges,
instancing many cases of attempted bribery.
MAMIE the fifteen ear-old adopted daugh-
ter of Rev. f. w. Adams of st. Johns Eps-
copal church, Elkhart, Ind, committed sui
eide on account of idle gossip concerning her.
BARON WoLvERToN, who died suddenly
at Brighton, England, was a staunch friend
of the Irish cause. He donated f1O0,000
towards the expenses of the home-rule
cause.
The municipal elections of England are
completed. The returns show gain for the
liberals of seventy-eight and gains for the
conservatives and dissident liberals of
siXty-two
HEzEKIAH b. SMITH, elected to congress
in 1878 as democrat and greenbacker, died
last week Thursday at Smithville, n. j.,
aged seventy-one. He was born in Bridge
water, Vt.
THE failure of the National Rubber Com
pany of Bristol. h. l., has caused the opera
tives, to whom SS7 900 is due, to demand re-
lief for their physical necessities The situa-
ton is alarming.
THE condition of ex-senator Jones of
Florida is ptiful. His trouble is sOftening
of the brain, which has undoubtedly been in
progress for years, and accounts for his
strange conduct.
IT is rumored that several wealthy news
papers are considering the advisability of
purchasing the United Lines Telegraph
plant and extending its scope in opposition
10 tne w eStern Union.
IT is reported that the rebellious Crow
Indians have driven the troops into a corner
and threaten their destruction. Sitting
Bull, with 5000 Sioux, is understood to be
in league with the Crows.
THE safe in the Grand Trunk railway sta
ton at Montreal was opened by a false key
recently and the receipts from the western
division and Rouses Point, supposed to
amount to 81, 800, carried off.
ONE survivor of the steamer Vernon y
has been found. He thinks fifty were lost
| The bodies Of seventeen men and two
women, the victims of the disaster were
found near Two Rivers. All the bodies
were dressed,
AN alleged infernal-machne was sent to
Chief justice Waite last week Thursday, il
was thought by anarchists, but it was inter
| cepted in the poSt-otfice. 1t proved to be Il
harmless machine, and the men who sent
it say that it was only intended for sensa-
ton. They are under arrest.
! FREDERICK Billings and Horace Fair
banks of Vermont, J. w. Miller, manager
of the Stonington line, President A. c. Che
ney of the Garfield National Bank in New
York, General e. f. Beale of Washington anG
many other capitalists in the Eastern States
have formed company for building the
Nicaragua ship canal.
DIPHrHERIA is raging in Oriskany anC
Warrensburg, n. Y. In the former place
| Fred Smith, a farmer, has just lost sis
children and the two remaining members
of his family are critically ill., In Warrens
burg the academy and some of the distric
schools have been closed, the Empire Shir
Company's mill has been shut down and I